The latest lawmaker to compare opponents to Nazis, Rep. David Schweikert, likened unions opposed to a controversial trade deal to Nazi propaganda head Joseph Goebbels as the House approved the president's unilateral power to negotiate major trade pacts.

"Have you ever had one of those moments when you are
compelled to come running down here and come up to the mic just
because you are so enraged with the duplicity of some of the
things you are hearing?" Schweikert said Friday from the
House floor before a vote on granting President Barack Obama 'fast-track' authority to
handle sweeping trade agreements like the TPP.

Schweikert, an Arizona Republican first elected to the House in
2010, then decided that a Nazi comparison was appropriate.

"Some of the crazy things I'm seeing put out in the media by
Big Labor—the willingness to make up stories, to make up
facts—Goebbels would be very proud of them," he said,
according to The Washington Post.

"Be careful that we're not getting conned by made-up
stories," Schweikert added before wrapping up his comments.

Unions, among many others, have lined up to oppose the TPP based
on concerns over a number of issues, including currency
manipulation, environmental protections, internet privacy,
transparency, and local control. The economic benefits of the
deal will go to corporations, not workers in any of the
participating nations, opponents say.

The deal has also been criticized for lack of transparency, as
the contents of the TPP have been kept in strict secrecy. Leaked
drafts of TPP negotiations have suggested that corporations would
be allowed to sue governments in private courts over profits lost
due to regulation.

Schweikert is certainly not the first member of Congress to
employ Nazi comparisons amid political rhetoric. In April, a Texas state lawmaker compared
gays to Nazis. In
January, Republican US Rep. Randy Weber used a Hitler
comparison to criticize Obama’s absence at the 'Unity March' in
Paris following the attack at the offices of the satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Last year, current Republican
presidential nominee Dr. Ben Carson
said that the US is "very much like Nazi Germany,"
and a Tennessee state senator likened Democrats enthused about signups for
health insurance through the Affordable Care Act to Nazis sending
Jews to concentration camps.

Media Matters has
noted that conservative media has routinely referenced the
Third Reich or Adolf Hitler when speaking of Obama, especially in
regard to the president's signature piece of legislation, the
Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare.